Errata: JOTGES (Spring 2020)

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Do you know what an author’s worst nightmare is—what keeps us up at night? Publishing mistakes.

Spelling mistakes are embarrassing. Formatting mistakes are bad, too. But worst of all is printing a sentence that is the exact reverse of what you meant to say.

I am mortified to say that I did that in my latest journal article, “Dallas Theological Seminary on Salvation: A Survey of Some Popular Professors Between 1965-1990” in the Spring 2020 issue of Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society.

On the last page (p. 79), I wrote, “Although all authors formally rejected salvation by faith apart from works…” (emphasis added). Oops! That was not what I meant to write. What I meant to write was:

“A further area of disagreement is on the role of works in salvation. Although all authors formally accepted salvation by faith apart from works, only Dwight Pentecost and Zane Hodges unambiguously held to that position. By contrast, while both John Walvoord and Charles Ryrie warned against making works a condition of salvation, nevertheless, they also made statements making works a condition of salvation” (emphasis added).

My apologies. The online version, and future printed versions, will be corrected.

Shawn_L

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Shawn Lazar (BTh, McGill; MA, VU Amsterdam) was the Editor of Grace in Focus magazine and Director of Publications for Grace Evangelical Society from May 2012 through June 2022. He and his wife Abby have three children. He has written several books including: Beyond Doubt: How to Be Sure of Your Salvation and Chosen to Serve: Why Divine Election Is to Service, Not to Eternal Life.